… and while my fingers run through the strings, I barely breathe…

File view through metadata

Ok, now it’s time to explain a little more in detail my proposal, so you don’t have to read the whole PDF attached a couple of posts below.

KDE has, since the 4.0 version, a semantic layer/engine called Nepomuk (that you may well know), and the project aims to create a new file dialog, which will allow users to save files associating any type of metadata, suggested by the program, as email details from KMail, document data from Okular, related people or projects, or anything that the user can add autonomously.

When the user will open files, he will browse through tags, until he will find what he will be looking for. In the next days I will be working on a little mockup, for showing what I am thinking about: an idea could be adding an input like the WordPress one, or something like a tag cloud for the system suggestions… anyway, expect some pictures soon!